It seems that we use our language, not just to cooperate, but to draw rings around our cooperative groups and to establish identities, and perhaps to protect our knowledge and wisdom and skills from being stolen from outside.
Similarly, the ring around earth during a total lunar eclipse is red because the sunlight travels through a long stretch of earth's atmosphere, from one end of the planet to the other.
The dance was going on just the same, but strangers had arrived and formed a ring around the figure, so that Eustacia could stand among these without a chance of being recognized.
Australian police say they placed a ring of steel around the city of Melbourne where five million people have begun a new six-week lockdown imposed after a spike in coronavirus infections.
WYNTON MARSALIS: No, I didn't want to get that ring around my lips from practicing the trumpet because I thought the girls wouldn't like me, so I never practiced.
This impact would have sprayed huge quantities of material into space, forming a ring around Earth similar to, but much thicker than, those that now adorn Saturn.
The ALMA and GLT improved the resolution and sensitivity of the observations and helped realize the imaging of the ring around the M87 black hole at a wavelength of 3.5 millimeters.
ALMA 和 GLT 提高观测的分辨率和灵敏度,并帮助实现 M87 黑洞周围 3.5 毫米波长的环状结构成像。
Outside Neptune's orbit is the Kuiper belt, an almost empty ring around the Sun that has icy bodies almost all smaller than Pluto, making slow orbits around the Sun.